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Don't call me vegan: People more likely to go meatless if food labelled 'sustainable' instead (news.sky.com)

submitted 2 years ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/health@lemmy.world

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Researchers said changing packaging on meat and dairy-free products, which often proudly tout their vegan status, could result in more people selecting them.

People are more likely to pick a meat-free option if it's not labelled vegan, a study suggests.

Foods described as "healthy", "sustainable" or "plant-based" are all more appealing, according to the University of Southern California.

Its research saw more than 7,000 people asked to choose between a vegan food basket and one with meat and dairy.

The former was randomly labelled "vegan", "plant-based", "healthy", "sustainable" or "healthy and sustainable".

The experiment found people were more likely to select it when the focus was on its benefits (such as "sustainable") rather than its content, though "plant-based" was still more popular than "vegan".

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[–] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why? Because they identify as manly manly men and manly men eat meat. Any suggestion that they eat less, even seeing other men eating less meat, attacks a core part of their identity.

Was that in the study or did you just make that part up?

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's not in the study I linked to, but here's another study that shows this I'm not making it up.

Even ordinary threats to masculinity trigger anxiety. Since the incorporation of meat signals masculinity, it is used to psychologically defend the ego against omnipresent threats to coveted masculine status.

[–] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

You've established both points independently, but not the correlation between them.